| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 199 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Digital Activism and Society : Politics, Economy and Culture in Network Communication
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Digital activism and society.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Digital Materialism; Contents; About the Author; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. DOM (Domestication); Materiality: Aesthetics and Anaesthetics; DATA; Natural Data; 2. ABS (Abstraction); 3. AUT (Automation); Use Case: Gramophone; Use Case: ATM; Speed-up of the Stripped Down: Anaesthetics; Chronocracy; History as a Product; Electrification; Regulation; 4. DIG (Digitization); Digital and Analogue; The Status of Knowledge; 5. FAB (Fabrication); Two Technical Images: Higgs Boson and the HUDF; Higgs Boson: The God Particle; HUDF; 6. MAT (Materialization). |
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Persistence of Anthropomorphism: PoliticsMedia Ecology; New Materialism; Structural Challenges to Technological Emancipation: Socially Necessary Discipline; 7. EMA (Emancipation); Freedom from Truth, Freedom for Facts; Let a Million Simulated Cybersyns Bloom!; Postscript; References; Index. |
| Summary |
Digital materiality (digimat) proposes a set of basic principles for how we understand the world through digital processes. This short book sets out a methodical materialist understanding of digital technologies, where they come from, how they work, and what they do. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Technology -- Social aspects.
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Technology -- Social aspects. |
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Material culture -- Technological innovations.
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Material culture. |
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Technological innovations. |
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Digital media.
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Digital media. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gottlieb, Baruch. Digital Materialism : Origins, Philosophies, Prospects. Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, ©2018 9781787436695 |
| ISBN |
9781787436688 (electronic book) |
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1787436683 (electronic book) |
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9781787439610 (electronic book) |
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1787439615 (electronic book) |
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9781787436695 (print) |
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1787436691 (print) |
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